Andrew has just upgraded the Alpha Agora. We hope you enjoy the slight adjustments to the look and feel and the new functions. Please report any problems you encounter to me or directly to Andrew, his mailbox may be found behind the link to "Team". (You might also want to offer a word of thanks if you like what you see.)

Philip Hudson emailed me this morning that he was unable to sign in, nor could he change his password. Neither could he post, and he was no longer receiving the daily Word. His computer had been in the shop, so he just picked up on this. He also had written you guys and got a reply they would fix his logon problem but haven't yet. We both have noted a lack of the usual number of posts. Maybe spam filters are involved?

I am not computer savvy, and need help finding my way around. HELP! ! ! what happened to the avatars????I am not receiving notices when some thread I am following has a new posting on it.IN SHORT; I AM NOT PLEASED AT THIS POINT.

I also like the green background between every other post: it has disappearedand makes the whole thing like reading the want-ads of the newspaper.

I've been online for about 15 minutes trying to find my way around and my poststill says I am off line. (If things are not broken, why fix them?????)

I have not received an email for any of the above postings.And I'm sorry, but I don't like the all white backgrounds: as I said, it is likereading the want-ads, the color green between breaks up the monotonyand helps find where I was looking, since I cannot take a red marker andcircle a particular post on my monitor screen.

May I respectfully suggest the IT people take mercy on us and publickly acknowledge they have read our rants and our fears, or we shall all melt into a devolution pool of gunk. WE DON't GROCK what is going on, and we need to have a public statement that you have heard and are answering our prayers. Otherwise...OCCUPY THE AGORA!

It makes no sense that if I want to PM Perry in the post above me,I get that posting wherein I write below it. Why not a blank box?I received no answer to the three PM's I made yesterday, so Iam assuming they were not received?

I've received no email today including notification of Perry's post above.Nor have I received a word for the day, if there was one.

I sent the reply on a PM by mistake, I think.I am not used to where they have put all the new updates.Thanks for replying.I sent Doc and this Andrew person a PM and no response.I still get no emails, no word of the day, no avatars.Sent a PM to slava to see if the PM thing is working.Received one from him, but it was blank: this before I sent him one.

Doc says in one thread that all is cleared up. Far from it.Doc says to tell Andrew, on the place to reach him on thefront page of Agora, but I cannot find the front page so thatis a no-go.Thanks for letting me know you got the PM, I am assumingDoc and Andrew did not get theirs since there is no response.

I'd check that slava, but I don't know how to find that page.Call me dense, but there are too many pages. I'd check that to see if the font size brought back theavatars, but I don't know where to find it.All my problems still exist, including the fact, slava thatI PM'd you but still have not received an answer,did you get the PM??????